Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members of the city council are apparently experiencing a nervous reaction to the prospect of reform." Shortly after the election, at what was supposed to be a "unity" breakfast, Washington had confided some of his reform notions to Vrdolyak. As might have been predicted, the city's craftiest politician did not respond eagerly to the news that he would be stripped of his job as chairman of the powerful building and zoning committee and of his ceremonial post as president pro tern of the council. "That's when I knew it would be war," Vrdolyak told the Chicago...
...campaigning of her own, rallying the faithful wherever she goes and giving a stream of recent interviews loaded with electoral grapeshot. Most likely, there was a one-woman debate going on at 10 Downing Street, between the Iron Lady who toughs it out to the end and the professional politician who knows a good thing when she sees...
Scores of famous names flutter effortlessly from Selznick's pages: Anita Loos, Irving Thalberg, Sam Goldwyn, Janet Gaynor, Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo and Uncle William, known at the office as Mr. Hearst. Banker-Politician Averell Harriman coached her in bridge and croquet, and Howard Hughes wanted her to be his "woman friend" because, as Go-Between Gary Grant suggested, she was a "tested product...
Born in New York City and raised in the Miami area, Stone is a cum laude graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School. Although not considered a heavyweight during his single Senate term, he was a personable and conscientious politician. He had a conservative voting record but, as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, was a vociferous advocate of the Panama Canal treaties. After working with Reagan as one of three Democrats on his transition team, Stone was defeated in his re-election bid in 1980 and joined the Washington office of a major law firm. Last year...
...could savor some small gains in Central America. The first came in El Salvador, where Defense Minister José Guillermo Garcia, 49, announced his resignation. For months, Garcia has been the object of increasing frustration for U.S. military trainers and restive officers of the Salvadoran armed forces. An astute politician, Garcia had been helpful to the U.S. in supporting El Salvador's land-reform program and curbing the excesses of right-wing Constituent Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson. But on the antiguerrilla battlefront, Garcia fought what for its cushy hours became known...